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Literary short stories by established and emerging writers. Excerpts: Hasanthika Sirisena Third-Country National Anura's new home was a tent. It housed twelve other TCNs: four from Sri Lanka, three from Nepal, one from Nigeria, three from India, one from Bangladesh. Carrie Brown Bomb Vera and Christy's mother were childhood chums. Their mothers had been friends before them, and there was some way in which Christy's mother had been indebted as a girl to Vera's family, something to do with money. Jessi Phillips The Klein Farm "We're going to lose the farm," he tells them. "If we don't make up some money fast." Rolf Yngve Going After His Brother Their dad had been on the township's first real planning commission and named these streets when they were nothing but stakes driven into farmland. Mississippi, Nakoma ÄîOrange, Peach; their dad said fruits and rivers never p_ed anybody off. Jackie Thomas-Kennedy The Bridge Is Moving If he had been coming for me, he would have come two years ago, when I asked him to. He would have come with a bishop from a chessboard, because mine is missing one and we loved to play chess. He would have named his sailboat Grace instead of Lucky Penny. Evan Christopher Burton Exposure Ahead beyond the tree-break lay the little borrowed house sitting dark walls against dark windows against dark sky. Jon Chopan This Form of Grieving My father moved into the old syrup factory on East Main Street with a futon and his photography equipment. Anne de Marcken Best Western My mom has left the bathroom light on so that I can see. I can tell she is awake, but I pretend that I have to be very quiet so that she will pretend to be asleep and not say anything to me. Josh Weil Malvern Hill When I was ten, my father caught me playing Civil War in the backyard. I was either blue or gray, depending on if I began my charge from the side where the mulber